Which of the following best explains what a futures contract is? A. A contract setting the price and date for a commodity purchase.
B. A contract setting the price for the exchange of two foreign
currencies.
C. A contract preventing the future sale or exchange of a particular
good.
D. A contract limiting the future liability of one set of partners if a
business fails.

Early 18th century british industries were generally small scale and relatively unsophisticated. most textile production, for example, was centred on small workshops or in the homes of spinners, weavers and dyers: a literal ‘cottage industry’ that involved thousands of individual manufacturers. such small-scale production was also a feature of most other industries, with different regions specialising in different products: metal production in the midlands, for example, and coal mining in the north-east.two illustrations of 18t